Dark Past
#3 of My Dark Lover
Dark Past
My name is Paul, my age is unimportant, I live in the shadows, thirsting for blood. I have stalked the night, hungering for more then what I had. I wanted a companion, and found one in the form of a young dragoness named Alex. She is 17, only a child, with scales the color of the noon day sky, the sky I have no seen in 500 years, her hair is as white as mine is black. Her name is Alex and I am in love with her.
I had known her for three days only, and even in that short time, I have fallen in love with her. At this moment I was laying on top of her, making love to her the best way I knew how, with passion driving my desire. I had loved hundreds of women in as many lifetimes, but only one other had felt the love I showed her now. With slow practiced thrusts I pushed in and out of her, our lips locked in a kiss.
In her ecstasy she did not realize she was leavening large bloody trenches in my back as her claws dug into my soft skin. I could have cared less, the wounds healed almost instantly, and pain was my ever present friend. I felt her tighten around me as she approached her edge, it was my greatest joy to please her every nerve. She moaned into my mouth, telling me she wanted me, and was ready. With one final thrust I plunged into her letting myself go, firing into her warm depths as I felt her fluids cover my shaft. She broke the kiss crying out in shear unrestrained bliss.
I fell beside her gazing into her ocean blue eyes filled with love. My own red orbs looked at her with a fire I had only ever felt once before in my long life. I kissed her again letting her fall asleep in my arms. I covered her body with the sheets of her parents bed. I slipped from her arms, and went back to the living room to collect my cloths, the night was still young, and I had....hungers that need attending to.
After dressing, I looked in on her once more to see that she was still asleep, she was resting soundly. Next I went to her room to look in on her friend, whom had joined us in our love this night. She too was sound asleep.
Changing my form into dozens of small bats I flew to the roof to look out at this town I had come to call home. The moon was full and the air was crisp, just the way I liked it. I inhaled deeply, taking in the sharp fall air. It was just like that day so long ago....
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Five hundred years earlier.
"Paul, Paul, hehe, wake up my sleepy lover." I opened my eyes to the see a blue dragon face staring into mine, smiling. I smiled back, Felicia, the love of my life, no one had ever made me feel the way she did. She was the single most important thing in my life. Felicia had taken me in a few years ago, I was a drifter living on the street. I was not like everyone else, I had no fur, no scales, I was a freak. A monster next to her beauty, and she had accepted me, loved me were even my own parents had not, we were happy, both if us, at last happy. But, that day, it all ended.
That day had started like all the others, I awoke to her face, her beautiful, flawless, perfect face. We ate together, and she went to market. I wanted to do something special for her, so I went out and was gone most of the day. I bought her candy and flowers, they were roses, red like rubies, it was all I could do.
On my way home I met a strange man, he looked just like me. It was dark but I could still make out his features in the moon light. He looked at me and smiled.
"Hello my friend, I am here to give you a gift, I have been waiting for you." He smiled at me like an old brother. I told him I didn't understand. "I am here to bring you into the family, there are so few of us left." He approached, I tried to run but found myself rooted to the ground. He reached out a hand and bent my neck plunging fangs into my throat. I gasped in pain as I felt the blood leaving my body.
"Oh my," he said releasing my throat, "It appears you have something to live for, going to have to change that."
"What, no," I rasped.
"But first," he said slicing open his finger. He squeezed a drop of blood into my mouth forcing me to swallow. He picked me up by my collar and dragged me to the house, I could tell that Felicia was home, I could see her in the window. He dropped me on the front lawn and said, "Watch as your life as a pesent dies, and you are born anew, as a Prince," he said summoning a burning ball in his hand. He threw it at the house igniting it instantly. The fire seemed to have a mind of it's own and swept trough the house with lighting speed. All I could do was watch and scream as I listened to her die, slowly, screaming my name for my help.
"NO, god please no, NO," I was on me knees now watching my life burn away. "NO take me instead, PLEASE," I howled in agony. My blood started to boil, I could feel fangs in my mouth, and a new found sense of power. I rose to my feet and looked at the man who had done this, he was laughing, cackling. I pulled out the knife she had given me, it was silver, not a practical weapon but it was sharp. I plunged it through his chest impaling his heart.
"Ach," he cried, he started to laugh again, but a gasp stilled his throat. "Silver, no not," he was cute off as his body erupted in flames, leaving only ash behind.
The fire had burned away everything, but I could still see her chared and blistered remains. I fell to my knees and wept, shacking my head not wanting to believe what was in front of my eyes. I let out a howl of anguish unlike any creature could make, it was almost unholy. That night I left that small province, and never returned.
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Present day.
The memory brought back waves of emotions, and a single bloody tear ran down my face. Vampires, you see, we can't cry like you. We simply bleed from our eyes, for we are the night walkers, cast out from the light. I would not allow that tragedy happen again, I would protect her with my life.
"Tonight, under the full moon I make this vow, I will never leave Alexia's side," I said to no one.
"That's good," said a voice. I looked out over the houses to see a black silhouette standing on a roof top. "You may need to cash that in before the end."
"What do you mean sister," I called in response.
"Something big is happening in the underworld, something that may force Marcus to call for your help."
With that she vanished. What she meant then I had no idea, but anyone that tried to hurt Alex would die by my hands, and fangs.
My name is Paul, I am a Vampire. I live in the world of the night. For hundreds of years I walked that path alone, but now I have met someone. Her name is Alex, she is 17 years old and I love her.